Thread:Zimvader42/@comment-134861-20150426212741/@comment-134861-20150426221543

Probably, yes. If you look at sites like tvtropes, you can tell that if we listed everything that can be said to be similar to a detail of DMC, we'd spend more space listing similarities than actually covering the series. If it's not on purpose, then the similarities aren't really informative -- for example, saying "tomatoes are red, like how firetrucks are red" is meaningless, since clearly tomatoes being red has nothing to do with firetrucks being red. Lot's of things are red, and listing them all is very meaningless.

If we can demonstrate that the similarity is intentional, then listing it is actually informing the reader of something relevant. We can do this a few ways -- either the similarity is so exact (like the Monster Hunter bit) that it's ludicrous to assume it's a coincidence, the similarities are between works by the same author so we can reasonably assume they are reusing their earlier work, or we can actually point to a note in the concept art or something from a twitter post or really anything where the creator points out the link.

In short, "if it's not relevant, then it's not relevant".

For the Scarecrows, yeah, it should probably be removed unless the trivia note cites any such thing as mentioned above. For Mephisto and Faust, those aren't so much references as simply describing what the character is -- there are few ways to describe their true form without referencing insects, if any. And honestly, that could very much be your out -- instead of putting in a trivia note which alleges a link that may not exist, you could simply add to the main article, in an appropriate location, that when Bael/Dagon fade out they do so with a Cheshire grin, which fades away after their body does.